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One brain. For any robot. 🤖
We’re launching Gemini Robotics 2: our next-generation physical AI bringing full body intelligence to humanoids, advanced dexterity, multi-robot teamwork and more.
We’re launching Gemini Robotics 2: our next-generation physical AI bringing full body intelligence to humanoids, advanced dexterity, multi-robot teamwork and more.
Three new models power this breakthrough:
1️⃣ Gemini Robotics 2: A vision-language-action model controlling humanoids from feet to fingertips
2️⃣ Gemini Robotics ER 2: Capable of real-world video understanding and complex, multi-step planning
3️⃣ On-Device 2: Runs locally and adapts to new robot bodies in just a few hours
1️⃣ Gemini Robotics 2: A vision-language-action model controlling humanoids from feet to fingertips
2️⃣ Gemini Robotics ER 2: Capable of real-world video understanding and complex, multi-step planning
3️⃣ On-Device 2: Runs locally and adapts to new robot bodies in just a few hours
Gemini Robotics 2 moves physical AI beyond tabletop tasks, enabling intelligent whole-body control for humanoids.
Watch @Apptronik's Apollo 2 process a single prompt to reach, bend, and pick up a watering can ↓
Watch @Apptronik's Apollo 2 process a single prompt to reach, bend, and pick up a watering can ↓
🧵A eulogy for Hamas fighter Ghassan Al-Kahlout confirms that the Indonesian Hospital was a military base. It details how Al-Kahlout smuggled weapons into the hospital using a wheelchair to aid an escape from an IDF attack in Nov 2023. Confirms IDF claims about the hospital. 1/ 
The IDF early on identified the Indonesian Hospital as a strategic center for Hamas Nukhba operations and a gathering place. Of course Israel was not believed despite plenty of evidence. Now we have corroboration from martyr notices. 2/ idf.il/en/mini-sites/…
Ghassan Muhammad Hassan Al-Kahlout (ID 408543072, Age 21) was killed in action on December 17, 2023. Here are some more images of Al-Kahlout. (Sources available upon request). END
Starting second afternoon session.
C the panel would like to address the matter raised of lack of specificity.
C the panel would like to address the matter raised of lack of specificity.
NC I’m making the point of allegations and evidence should be weighed in part.
C so it’s not being suggested it’s impossible for the officer to have a fair hearing
C so it’s not being suggested it’s impossible for the officer to have a fair hearing
NC on those, I think it must be, yes.
1/10 For seventeen years, Wisconsin has run federal elections without the HAVA State Plan the law requires. I asked for a copy. The Wisconsin Elections Commission couldn't produce one. Because it doesn't exist. So I sued. 🧵
2/10 The last Wisconsin HAVA plan ever published in the Federal Register: November 12, 2009. Its author: the Government Accountability Board, an agency that was ABOLISHED in 2016. WEC has never adopted a plan. Not once. While cashing tens of millions in federal HAVA checks.
3/10 WEC's response to my lawsuit? Its lawyers told the court to throw my case out because I "had an adequate remedy": WEC's own HAVA complaint process. Remember that phrase. Adequate remedy.
@sssrrrbbb89 @Photobehindlens @DennisWardNews Keep going my amazing cops it's time to take control of stupid people like this kuuuunnnnnttttttt in the video while your at it start taking control of Donald dude pisses me off when he abuses you and films you doing your work it needs to stop
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I turn 79 today.
I don’t want any gifts. Instead, my team and I decided to revolutionize the fitness industry — and we’re doing something crazy to celebrate.
Here it is: join.arnoldspumpclub.com/birthday
Between today and Sunday, August 9, when you join the Pump Club app and complete four workout programs in your first year, you pay nothing.
Zero. Nada. Zilch.
No fine print. If you show up and do the work, your first year is free. The payments are automatically sent back to your card.
If that feels shocking, then let me say it even more plainly.
Sign up for the app through that link. Try it free for 7 days. After your trial, pay $100 for your first year. Complete four workout programs. Get $100 back automatically: $50 after your first, and $50 after your fourth.
I don’t want any gifts. Instead, my team and I decided to revolutionize the fitness industry — and we’re doing something crazy to celebrate.
Here it is: join.arnoldspumpclub.com/birthday
Between today and Sunday, August 9, when you join the Pump Club app and complete four workout programs in your first year, you pay nothing.
Zero. Nada. Zilch.
No fine print. If you show up and do the work, your first year is free. The payments are automatically sent back to your card.
If that feels shocking, then let me say it even more plainly.
Sign up for the app through that link. Try it free for 7 days. After your trial, pay $100 for your first year. Complete four workout programs. Get $100 back automatically: $50 after your first, and $50 after your fourth.
Have I Lost My Mind?
“Arnold, I thought you were a good businessman. How does this make sense?”
I am a good businessman. But unlike most other fitness apps, the Pump Club is not backed by a private equity fund or a hedge fund. It’s 100% backed by me.
Look. I am fighting a fitness crusade. This is personal — not just business. I’ve been trying to get people to train for six decades, and I’ve found something that works.
If I can make millions of you train consistently all year, I’ll take the loss.
Let me explain.
Over the years, I've learned an ugly truth about the business of fitness.
The industry profits most when you fail.
Think about it.
Every January, gyms and apps scream DISCOUNTS.
They want you to sign up, pay up, and then quietly disappear.
I've talked to gym owners who admitted something shocking: they get nervous advertising after January, because it reminds members who don't show up that they're still paying every month.
Think about that. They want you to forget you’re paying them.
That's the system.
And I don't like that system.
Because we are not here just to take your money.
We are here to make you better.
Progress, not profit, is our primary business principle.
We only deserve profit if you're winning. We have to win together.
The most frustrating thing is, even with the fitness industry exploding into a $270 billion business, nobody really knows (or cares) how to make someone fit for life.
I care. And now I know how.
“Arnold, I thought you were a good businessman. How does this make sense?”
I am a good businessman. But unlike most other fitness apps, the Pump Club is not backed by a private equity fund or a hedge fund. It’s 100% backed by me.
Look. I am fighting a fitness crusade. This is personal — not just business. I’ve been trying to get people to train for six decades, and I’ve found something that works.
If I can make millions of you train consistently all year, I’ll take the loss.
Let me explain.
Over the years, I've learned an ugly truth about the business of fitness.
The industry profits most when you fail.
Think about it.
Every January, gyms and apps scream DISCOUNTS.
They want you to sign up, pay up, and then quietly disappear.
I've talked to gym owners who admitted something shocking: they get nervous advertising after January, because it reminds members who don't show up that they're still paying every month.
Think about that. They want you to forget you’re paying them.
That's the system.
And I don't like that system.
Because we are not here just to take your money.
We are here to make you better.
Progress, not profit, is our primary business principle.
We only deserve profit if you're winning. We have to win together.
The most frustrating thing is, even with the fitness industry exploding into a $270 billion business, nobody really knows (or cares) how to make someone fit for life.
I care. And now I know how.
We’ve Learned What Makes People Work Out — From Real Data
I'm a curious guy and I love statistics. The benefit of running a fitness app is I suddenly have all the data in the world about how people change their behavior. I'm not one of those people that sells data and I never will be.
But I am someone who will use it to make you better.
I can use data to see what works — and what doesn't.
Other people start a fitness app to run a business. For the past 3 years, we’ve been running an experiment. Testing. Searching.
We tested everything.
What we saw was clear and uncomfortable for the industry:
The bigger the upfront discount, the less people train. Every time.
When we gave heavy discounts, more people joined — but fewer people showed up, fewer finished programs, and fewer changed their lives.
This is not a surprise — the majority of people who join a fitness app never start a workout. Anyone who has ever been in a gym in January and stayed until February has seen the attendance drop.
We finally decided to try something different.
Instead of making it cheaper to start, we made it cheaper to finish.
We gave people money back for completing a program.
And those members?
They were different.
More consistent.
More committed.
More likely to finish.
In the fitness app world, it is normal to have 85% of the people who download your app never use it.
We have been very proud that we always doubled the industry standard.
But when we gave an incentive for finishing a program — a discount they earned, instead of one we gave up front — we didn't just double the average. We flipped it upside down.
85% of people started training.
That's when we knew: this is the right way to do fitness.
I'm a curious guy and I love statistics. The benefit of running a fitness app is I suddenly have all the data in the world about how people change their behavior. I'm not one of those people that sells data and I never will be.
But I am someone who will use it to make you better.
I can use data to see what works — and what doesn't.
Other people start a fitness app to run a business. For the past 3 years, we’ve been running an experiment. Testing. Searching.
We tested everything.
What we saw was clear and uncomfortable for the industry:
The bigger the upfront discount, the less people train. Every time.
When we gave heavy discounts, more people joined — but fewer people showed up, fewer finished programs, and fewer changed their lives.
This is not a surprise — the majority of people who join a fitness app never start a workout. Anyone who has ever been in a gym in January and stayed until February has seen the attendance drop.
We finally decided to try something different.
Instead of making it cheaper to start, we made it cheaper to finish.
We gave people money back for completing a program.
And those members?
They were different.
More consistent.
More committed.
More likely to finish.
In the fitness app world, it is normal to have 85% of the people who download your app never use it.
We have been very proud that we always doubled the industry standard.
But when we gave an incentive for finishing a program — a discount they earned, instead of one we gave up front — we didn't just double the average. We flipped it upside down.
85% of people started training.
That's when we knew: this is the right way to do fitness.
1/ COVID-19 and Presidential Leadership (2020)
An Evidence-Based Historical Review
Tweet 1/11
Four years after the most disruptive public health emergency in a century, debates over COVID-19 often generate more heat than light. Partisans on both sides have selectively remembered the pandemic, emphasizing facts that support their preferred narrative while minimizing those that do not.
This thread takes a different approach.
It attempts to reconstruct President Donald Trump’s public statements and major actions from January 2020 through Election Day using contemporaneous records, White House transcripts, peer-reviewed literature, government reports, and other primary sources whenever possible.
The goal is not to defend President Trump, nor to prosecute him. Where the historical record supports praise, it is given. Where it documents mistakes or missed opportunities, those are presented as well. Where uncertainty remains, it is acknowledged.
Pandemics unfold in real time under conditions of incomplete information. Leaders inevitably make imperfect decisions. Yet history also teaches that presidential communication can influence public behavior as profoundly as presidential policy.
This thread examines both.
Primary references: White House archives; CDC; NIH; GAO; Congressional testimony; peer-reviewed literature.
An Evidence-Based Historical Review
Tweet 1/11
Four years after the most disruptive public health emergency in a century, debates over COVID-19 often generate more heat than light. Partisans on both sides have selectively remembered the pandemic, emphasizing facts that support their preferred narrative while minimizing those that do not.
This thread takes a different approach.
It attempts to reconstruct President Donald Trump’s public statements and major actions from January 2020 through Election Day using contemporaneous records, White House transcripts, peer-reviewed literature, government reports, and other primary sources whenever possible.
The goal is not to defend President Trump, nor to prosecute him. Where the historical record supports praise, it is given. Where it documents mistakes or missed opportunities, those are presented as well. Where uncertainty remains, it is acknowledged.
Pandemics unfold in real time under conditions of incomplete information. Leaders inevitably make imperfect decisions. Yet history also teaches that presidential communication can influence public behavior as profoundly as presidential policy.
This thread examines both.
Primary references: White House archives; CDC; NIH; GAO; Congressional testimony; peer-reviewed literature.
2/ January 2020: An Early Response That Bought Time—but Did Not Fully Use It
COVID-19 first entered American consciousness in January 2020 as reports emerged from Wuhan, China.
The Trump administration deserves credit for several early actions. On January 31, it announced restrictions on entry for many foreign nationals who had recently traveled from China, following the declaration of a Public Health Emergency. Many public health experts have since concluded these measures likely delayed—but could not prevent—the virus’s arrival in the United States.
Buying time, however, is only valuable if that time is used effectively.
During February, the United States struggled to expand diagnostic testing, strengthen surveillance, and prepare coordinated national mitigation strategies. Those shortcomings reflected both immediate decisions and longer-standing structural weaknesses in American public health preparedness.
Viewed historically, January represents a mixed chapter: an administration that recognized the potential seriousness of the threat early enough to implement travel restrictions, but one that did not fully translate that additional time into nationwide readiness.
References: CDC; HHS Public Health Emergency declaration; GAO; peer-reviewed analyses of travel restrictions.
COVID-19 first entered American consciousness in January 2020 as reports emerged from Wuhan, China.
The Trump administration deserves credit for several early actions. On January 31, it announced restrictions on entry for many foreign nationals who had recently traveled from China, following the declaration of a Public Health Emergency. Many public health experts have since concluded these measures likely delayed—but could not prevent—the virus’s arrival in the United States.
Buying time, however, is only valuable if that time is used effectively.
During February, the United States struggled to expand diagnostic testing, strengthen surveillance, and prepare coordinated national mitigation strategies. Those shortcomings reflected both immediate decisions and longer-standing structural weaknesses in American public health preparedness.
Viewed historically, January represents a mixed chapter: an administration that recognized the potential seriousness of the threat early enough to implement travel restrictions, but one that did not fully translate that additional time into nationwide readiness.
References: CDC; HHS Public Health Emergency declaration; GAO; peer-reviewed analyses of travel restrictions.
3/ February 2020: Private Knowledge and Public Messaging
One of the most consequential episodes of the pandemic concerns not a policy decision, but presidential communication.
On February 7, 2020, during a recorded interview with journalist Bob Woodward, President Trump acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 spread through the air and described it as “more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
By late January, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien had reportedly warned the President that COVID-19 could become the greatest national security challenge of his presidency.
Yet throughout much of February, Trump’s public messaging remained considerably more reassuring. He repeatedly suggested the outbreak was under control, predicted case numbers would soon decline, and on February 27 stated:
“It’s going to disappear. One day—it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”
Months later, Trump explained his reasoning to Woodward:
“I wanted to always play it down… because I don’t want to create a panic.”
Reasonable observers can disagree about whether reassurance was the appropriate communication strategy. What is historically well documented is that Trump’s private assessment of the virus differed substantially from much of his public messaging during February.
References: Woodward recordings; White House remarks; contemporaneous reporting.
One of the most consequential episodes of the pandemic concerns not a policy decision, but presidential communication.
On February 7, 2020, during a recorded interview with journalist Bob Woodward, President Trump acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 spread through the air and described it as “more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
By late January, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien had reportedly warned the President that COVID-19 could become the greatest national security challenge of his presidency.
Yet throughout much of February, Trump’s public messaging remained considerably more reassuring. He repeatedly suggested the outbreak was under control, predicted case numbers would soon decline, and on February 27 stated:
“It’s going to disappear. One day—it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”
Months later, Trump explained his reasoning to Woodward:
“I wanted to always play it down… because I don’t want to create a panic.”
Reasonable observers can disagree about whether reassurance was the appropriate communication strategy. What is historically well documented is that Trump’s private assessment of the virus differed substantially from much of his public messaging during February.
References: Woodward recordings; White House remarks; contemporaneous reporting.
Shiver me timbers Donald block me on my Facebook have no fear I'll still get his videos 🤣🤣🤣🤣 this screenshot is from when he blocked me..... Keep abusing my cops Donald and I'll keep abusing you some people are babying you just cause you are a vulnerable retard well that's
Not me not when it comes to MY COPS so fucking stay away from them and fucking stop harassing them and stop filming them THEY HATE IT and so do I
@ChrisPentecos @Photobehindlens @World_Watch_ @LangleyResident @BarbaraDoduk @Cdnwatcher @Istandtoreason @facepalmchris @trustednerd @felixcruggins @CultureGuard @WaxMyBallsShow @FranLa9 @kfurneaux20 @VernThurston @JonYaniv @JNonsense46242
Why does the p*rn addiction return every time you promise not to return to it?
Here’s why.
Here’s why.
Because determination alone is not enough.
Many people make a sincere promise:
“This is the last time.”
Yet they return.
Not because they were insincere,
but because the causes that led them to the sin were never removed.
Many people make a sincere promise:
“This is the last time.”
Yet they return.
Not because they were insincere,
but because the causes that led them to the sin were never removed.
The soul weakens through repetition.
The first time may feel shocking.
The second time feels easier.
Then what once disturbed the heart becomes familiar.
This is one of the dangers of repeated sin.
The first time may feel shocking.
The second time feels easier.
Then what once disturbed the heart becomes familiar.
This is one of the dangers of repeated sin.
We will shortly be starting the afternoon session of Day 2 of the following hearing:
DC Fletcher is accused of gross misconduct for comments she is alleged to have made to colleagues while on duty with Northumbria Police.
DC Fletcher is accused of gross misconduct for comments she is alleged to have made to colleagues while on duty with Northumbria Police.
For background, please see today’s earlier threads and our Substack:
tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/police-misco…
tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/police-misco…
We begin.
CD the defence bundle all were depending on was submitted by officer in chief.
Submissions. 1. Did the AA approach in good faith? 2. Have they proved a breach? Not a trial against Sean McG. Line managing can be difficult. A pattern of behaviour before anything unusual.
CD the defence bundle all were depending on was submitted by officer in chief.
Submissions. 1. Did the AA approach in good faith? 2. Have they proved a breach? Not a trial against Sean McG. Line managing can be difficult. A pattern of behaviour before anything unusual.
In the 1930s, thousands of Finns moved to the Soviet Union.
They went off to build a paradise, blinded by propaganda.
Within just a few years, thousands of them would become victims of Stalin's Great Terror. 🧵
They went off to build a paradise, blinded by propaganda.
Within just a few years, thousands of them would become victims of Stalin's Great Terror. 🧵
An estimated 15,000–20,000 Finns settled in Soviet Karelia.
They included workers, loggers, engineers, teachers and entire families from Finland, the United States and Canada.
Their skills were needed to build the new socialist society.
They included workers, loggers, engineers, teachers and entire families from Finland, the United States and Canada.
Their skills were needed to build the new socialist society.
At first, life seemed promising.
Finnish-language schools opened, jobs were plentiful, and many believed they had found a better future.
Then everything changed.
Finnish-language schools opened, jobs were plentiful, and many believed they had found a better future.
Then everything changed.
For those who are still confused why 'israel' mass murders children.
Here is a list of verses from jewish scriptures that reference or demand the killing of children and newborns.
'Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!' -Psalm 137:9
Here is a list of verses from jewish scriptures that reference or demand the killing of children and newborns.
'Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!' -Psalm 137:9
'Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones...'
- Numbers 31:17
- Numbers 31:17
'Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished (violated).'
- Isaiah 13:16
- Isaiah 13:16
